“They’re out there, hovering around. They talk to me, but they are afraid of scaring people,” explained the wiry 39-year-old.

Hill — if that is his real name — is the sort of pseudo-celebrity that is a product of the Internet Age. He doesn’t have a TV show or film career, but 421,000 people have watched his low-budget movie, “UFO Phil: The Movie,” on YouTube. He doesn’t have a major-label record contract, but his songs about aliens have been played on national radio.

He claims to have recently moved to Colorado Springs from Spokane, Wash., with the express goal of building an alien-designed, pyramid-shaped power plant atop Pikes Peak.

“The good thing about Pikes Peak is it’s double the altitude of Mount Spokane, so I can get closer to the aliens,” Hill said.

Of course, the Summit House restaurant would have to be demolished.

UFO Phil said aliens have put chips in his head and have taught him how to replicate the ancient Egyptian pyramids, which were alien fuel depots. The aliens, by the way, love Kix cereal, he said. R. Scott Rappold, The Gazette

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.